Our Visiting Lecturers and Post Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Aren Aizura
aaizura@indiana.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies
Aren Z. Aizura was awarded his PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne in 2009. His publications include essays in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (2006), Asian Studies Review (2009) and the Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body (Greenwood, 2008). His current project examines race and gender in transnational surgical tourism, focusing on the history and geographical availability of gender reassignment surgeries.
His teaching and research interests include trans and queer theory; postcolonial studies, in particular studies of migration and colonization; science, sex and gender; embodiment and body modification; and materialist critical theory and philosophy.
Dr. Jennifer Shaw
jennshaw@indiana.edu
Visiting Lecturer in Gender Studies
Jennifer Shaw is a lecturer in Gender Studies at IU. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Women's Studies at Emory University and has been a visiting assistant professor both at Emory and The Ohio State University.
Her teaching and research interests include visual culture, feminism and science, critical theory and sexuality studies. She has forthcoming publications in ThirdText and Body & Society. Her current work examines the impact of anatomical illustrations on the modernization of pregnancy and reproduction.
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Dr. Melissa Stein
mnstein@indiana.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies
Melissa N. Stein received her PhD in History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, specializing in African-American and gender history. While at Rutgers, Stein was head research assistant at the Center for Race & Ethnicity, a graduate fellow at the Institute for Research on Women, and an Excellence Fellow at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. Her publications include essays on "Race as a Social Construction" and "Class" in Black Women in America (Oxford University Press, 2005), and "Misogyny" in The Encyclopedia of Women in World History (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Her current project, "Embodying Race: Gender, Sex, and the Sciences of Difference, 1830-1934," is a gendered analysis of scientific racism in nineteenth and early twentieth century America that traces biomedical constructions of citizenship, investigates the relationship between racial science and sexology, and examines scientist's responses to racial violence. Her teaching and research interests include the body, racial thought, sexuality, U.S. cultural and intellectual history, African-American history, women's and gender history, and the history of science and medicine.
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Gender Studies
Indiana University
Memorial Hall E., 130
Bloomington, IN * 47403
(812) 855-0101
(812) 855-4869 (fax)
gender@indiana.edu
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Our Visiting Lecturers and Post Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Aren Aizura
aaizura@indiana.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies
Aren Z. Aizura was awarded his PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne in 2009. His publications include essays in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (2006), Asian Studies Review (2009) and the Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body (Greenwood, 2008). His current project examines race and gender in transnational surgical tourism, focusing on the history and geographical availability of gender reassignment surgeries.
His teaching and research interests include trans and queer theory; postcolonial studies, in particular studies of migration and colonization; science, sex and gender; embodiment and body modification; and materialist critical theory and philosophy.
Dr. Jennifer Shaw
jennshaw@indiana.edu
Visiting Lecturer in Gender Studies
Jennifer Shaw is a lecturer in Gender Studies at IU. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Women's Studies at Emory University and has been a visiting assistant professor both at Emory and The Ohio State University.
Her teaching and research interests include visual culture, feminism and science, critical theory and sexuality studies. She has forthcoming publications in ThirdText and Body & Society. Her current work examines the impact of anatomical illustrations on the modernization of pregnancy and reproduction.
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Dr. Melissa Stein
mnstein@indiana.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies
Melissa N. Stein received her PhD in History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, specializing in African-American and gender history. While at Rutgers, Stein was head research assistant at the Center for Race & Ethnicity, a graduate fellow at the Institute for Research on Women, and an Excellence Fellow at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. Her publications include essays on "Race as a Social Construction" and "Class" in Black Women in America (Oxford University Press, 2005), and "Misogyny" in The Encyclopedia of Women in World History (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Her current project, "Embodying Race: Gender, Sex, and the Sciences of Difference, 1830-1934," is a gendered analysis of scientific racism in nineteenth and early twentieth century America that traces biomedical constructions of citizenship, investigates the relationship between racial science and sexology, and examines scientist's responses to racial violence. Her teaching and research interests include the body, racial thought, sexuality, U.S. cultural and intellectual history, African-American history, women's and gender history, and the history of science and medicine.
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Gender Studies
Indiana University
Memorial Hall E., 130
Bloomington, IN * 47403
(812) 855-0101
(812) 855-4869 (fax)
gender@indiana.edu
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